A South Carolina family filed a lawsuit alleging that their student fell ill after an elementary school covered up the presence of mold in a building.
Tamara Broach, guardian of an unidentified student, filed the lawsuit this week in the Horry County courthouse, Sun News reported on Tuesday. He named St. James Elementary in Myrtle Beach and Horry County schools as defendants.
The lawsuit claimed that the district was unable to remove mold from one of its buildings, causing a student to become ill. The family also claimed that Horry County schools failed to provide a safe environment for students, neglecting the mold issue “for years”.
The suit asks for an unspecified amount of money.
Horry County Schools spokeswoman Lisa Bourcier said the district could not comment on pending lawsuits.
The unidentified student was enrolled in the school for a period of two years until 2019 and suffered from headaches, sore throat, mouth sores, fatigue, depression and general malaise, the lawsuit claimed. The student ended up receiving medical treatment and blood tests showed exposure to fungi, the suit says. Several other students also became ill, the suit said.
Horry County schools later hired a company to remove the mold, although the toxin was found again after the first removal and the district had to remove it a second time, The Sun News reported, citing the suit.
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